"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)."Erik Keilholtz

Under the patronage of St. Tammany

Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children.Email

His life began to seem star-crossed…In 1982, after auditioning for the job of Channel 38 color commentator, Tony suffered a massive heart attack while riding in a car with Billy. He survived it, but just barely, and lived in the constant care of his family until his death this year. [1990]

(One imagines that if the New York Times, the Florida judiciary, and the odd Jesuit medical ethicist had had a say in the matter, his family would have cut off his food and water long before eight years had passed.)